Jonathan Edwards

by Helen K. Hosier

Amidst the millions of committed Christians in each generation, a handful rise to special prominence. Learn more about their exciting and inspiring lives in Barbour's Heroes of the Faith... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577485599
• ISBN13: 9781577485599
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and Succinct Biography on the Puritan Divine

~Jonathan, Edwards: The Great Awakener (Heroes of the Faith)~ an intriguing, albeit succinct, biographical sketch of the great Puritan evangelist Jonathan Edwards who inaugurated the Great Awakening with his sovereign grace preaching. The author captures his early childhood and his gradual cognizance and acceptance of the sovereignty of God, particularly in our redemption. It is fairly objective and features selections from his writings, though academic readers might prefer the larger tome on Edwards by George Marsden. The Heroes of Faith series features biographies of other Sovereign Grace preachers such as C.H. Spurgeon, George Whitefield and John Bunyan, though I haven't looked at them. It features an appendix with a copy of his most famous and powerful sermon,